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The Kolijani Ritual Event on the Island of Krk, Croatia: Continuity or Revival?

The case study is a result of a continuous fieldwork "at home" and it points to the existence of collective memory as a key notion in relating continuity and revival. Kolijani-koleda event takes place in the Christmas and New Year period and is marked by processions moving from house to house, expressing good wishes, together with a choosing the king custom. Through changes and innovations this ritual has ensured its firm entrenchment in the consciousness of the people. The symbolic presentation of village unity moves from the secular to the religious sphere. Their mutual permeation is constant and inseparable and the performance of the ritual is the present expression of collective identity and feelings. Cultural memory exists and develops continuously even when there is no public expression of collective identification. The dialectical relationship between tradition and revival is confirmed in the interweaving of the old pre-Christian symbols (although they are expressed with new meaning or just repeated as a rule) with the most contemporary expressions of one's identity. The symbolism of the king's tanac dance, incorporated at the ritual climax, show how dance plays an important role in the processes of identification of the individual and the collective.

ritual; continuity; revival; kolijani-koleda; dance; tanac; Krk; Croatia

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